Semiosis Quartet performs from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday at Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville. There is a $10 to $15 suggested donation. Semiosis - made up of violinists Nicole Parks and Kyra Davies, violist Lauren Nelson and cellist Allison Drenkow - continue to highlight work by voices traditionally underrepresented in the new music community.

Foundry building project has architect: Cambridge Seven, from Harvard Square

The Foundry building has found its architect in Cambridge Seven, a firm based just outside Harvard Square that has built everything from retail and office space to museums and aquariums from Baltimore and Foxboro to China and Kuwait.

...and Mimi Rancatore opening it today just after 5 p.m. The old store at 899 Main St. closed Tuesday while the building above is transformed into a boutique hotel, leaving a one...

It’s not the first time Tosci’s has expanded. Although 899 Main St. has always been the primary store, in the 1990s there was a store on the first floor of the MIT student center at 84 Massachusetts Ave., and a Harvard Square outpost on the 1300 block of Massachusetts Avenue in the early 2000s.

Cambridge favorite Toscanini's Ice Cream has expanded from Central Square to a location at 159 First St., by the Cambridgeside mall in East Cambridge, with owners Gus and Mimi Rancatore opening it today just after 5 p.m. The old store at 899 Main St.

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